Nostalgic photographs taken by the best Soviet Union artists

In the USSR there was a powerful tradition of photography, which brought up a lot of masters. In this collection - very different pictures: staged and documentary, metropolitan and provincial, funny and sad. But every image is a moment of life. Alas, nowadays there are more and more photographers, but fewer such powerful and lively photos...

"Winter". 1965 year. Photo: Yuri Lunkov.

Mikhail Gorbachev is surrounded by deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. USSR, Moscow, 1989. Photographer: Vladimir Fedorenko.

At the exhibition. Girl with a bag. 1960 year. Photo: Nikolay Tokarev.

A teenager is playing with a dog on the beach. The USSR, Bashkiria, 1978.

A little girl is playing with a ball early in the morning. The USSR, 1975. Photographer: Wilhelm Mikhailovsky.

New Year in a psychiatric hospital. USSR, Moscow, 1988. Photographer: Pavel Krivtsov.